Status: pre-launch. This page describes target design; this document does not establish a deployed service.
D2 -- Structural Defenses, Not a Claimed Moat
This page held competitive-moat language ("unreplicable," "impossible choice," "cannot out-innovate") describing three structural properties of the design. Those are investor-pitch claims this wiki cannot make about a pre-launch, untested system. The three properties, stated as design intent rather than proven advantage:
- SPECTRE's routing would be learned, not copied. If nodes learn optimal routes from real traffic over time, that history is not something a new network starts with. See SPECTRE Overview.
- Non-extraction is a declared cooperative-stack commitment. Its stated scope and owner rules matter. See Zero Extraction.
- The common framework informs the architecture, but proves neither uniqueness nor durable competitive advantage. See The Equation.
Whether these properties add up to a durable competitive advantage is untested and unmeasured. Selected predecessor passages are preserved below; the full former framing and checklist remain in source history, not a complete inline archival copy.
See Also
- D0 Five Breakthroughs -- the design ideas behind each property
- 40 SPECTRE Overview -- the mesh network
Historical predecessor wording — retained on 2026-09-27, not active rules
The displaced passages are preserved verbatim for lineage. This retention date is not their original authorship date.
Predecessor passage 1
- Zero extraction (eta = 0) is constitutional, not a policy. It cannot be changed by a governance vote. See Zero Extraction.
- The architecture is derived from one equation, not assembled from independent choices. See The Equation.
Historical predecessor wording — retained on 2026-09-28, not active rules
Predecessor passage 1
The original "moat" framing, including its durability-test checklist, is preserved below as K3 provenance.